Jo Callis: Whoah Yeah (1981)

"Woah Yeah!" (b/w "Sinistrale", "Dodo Boys") finds a newly-solo Rezillo/Shake guitarist/song-writers Jo Callis "trapped in the twilight zone", somewhere between the summit of glam-rock and the pit of synth-pop. Actually this single still evinces a lot of kicky pop attitude and should not be consigned to the middle ground between light and shadow.



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Update1 : For an fantastic read go check out this interview with Jo Calllis over at It's **** Thing.

Update 2: MRML is looking for a rip of Jo Callis' post Human League band SWALK, let us know if anyone out there has a cop0y of it!

Shake: Peel Sessions (1979)

Jo Callis' post-Rezillos band Shake's (more HERE) lone session for John Peel was recorded on 23/04/1979.

The band was:
* Angel Patterson (Drums)
* Simon Templar (Bass, Vocals)
* Troy Tate (Guitar)
* Jo Callis (Guitar, Vocals)


The songs were:
* (But) Not Mine
* Glasshouse
* Night By Night
* Teenbeat


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Shake: Invasion of the Gamma Men (1980)

Shake's last shot before Jo Callis went solo for a a wink and then joined The Human League. A fun little B-movie-pop single but again it gives little indication why Callis and The Revillos needed to be separate entities at this point.



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Shake: Culture Shock 10" (1979)

The Rezillos split in half in 1978. Fay Fife, Eugene Reynolds and original Rezillo, Hi-Fi Harris, formed the similarly-retro-fitted band The Revillos (who had to change their name for contractual reasons) while Jo Callis brought along Simon Templar and Angel Patterson to his new band, Shake. Shake, like all Callis' projects were a pop band, but without a strong personality to bring it all home. Unsurprisingly, as Callis was both bands' chief song-writer, Shake sound a lot like The Rezillos - who even played the song "Culture Shock" at their farewell show in 1978 - but with less exuberance and less theatricality.


Leave us a comment on what you make of the post-Rezillos work of Jo Callis and Shake.

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